Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of male and female apprentices in training by each employment sector and subsector at 31 December 2016 and at 31 December 2017, respectively for craft-based and consortia-led apprenticeships, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2736/18]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the targeted apprentice registrations forecasted for all craft-based apprenticeships and registrations planned under new consortia-led apprenticeship programmes per annum in the 2016 to 2020 period; the number of existing and new apprenticeship programmes forecasted for each year in this period; and the actual numbers realised in terms of apprentice registrations and new programmes operationalised for these targets as at 31 December 2016 and at 31 December 2017. [2739/18]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the apprentice population forecasted in each employment sector and subsector for the 2016 to 2020 period between craft-based and new consortia-led apprenticeships; and the actual apprentice population as at 31 December 2016 and 31 December 2017. [2740/18]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the State funding, both national training fund and the Exchequer, allocated to craft-based and consortia-led apprenticeships between design, validation training costs, off-the-job training and other costs incurred over the 2015 to 2017 period. [2741/18]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 and 117 to 119, inclusive, together.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables.

In 2018, all funding for craft based and consortia led apprenticeships will be provided from the NTF.

Table 1 - Craft Apprenticeships

Forecast populationby industrial sector

Table 2 – Forecast population for new apprenticeships*

*At this stage, it is not possible to give an accurate breakdown of the forecast population in new apprenticeships on a sectoral basis. The Apprenticeship Council is continuing to work with consortia in developing a wide variety of proposals in various sectors of the economy made through the first call for proposals. In addition, following our second call for proposals last year a further 26 new proposals were approved for further development last month across a wide range of occupations. Once developed, these will further shape the sectoral breakdown of these new apprenticeships.

black text = Craft based

red text = consortia led